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  • For the Record

    A municipality’s total debt load is computed based on the equalized assessed value average over the past three years. Manalapan by law may have a total debt load as high as 3.5 percent of that amount. Manalapan’s average equalized assessed value for 2005, 2006 and 2007 is $5,716,900,825. Manalapan’s total current debt load is one-quarter…

  • Adeline M. Shuldman

    Mrs. Shuldman, 74, of Howell, died Sept. 4, 2008, at home. She had lived in Marlboro for 20 years before moving to Howell in 1987. Mrs. Shuldman was predeceased by her husband, Abraham, in 1992. She is survived by her children and their spouses, Stuart and Bibi Shuldman of Edison, Barbara and William Barnstead of…

  • Memories linger after baseball season’s final out

    It was that time of year again. Spring had just about left us and for most boys in Freehold, it meant that baseball would as well. The Little League season had come to an end and as most of its players left Michael J. Tighe Park after the last game of the season, you couldn’t…

  • Ah’ sai Ha’mere Woolfolk

    Ah’ sai Ha’mere Woolfolk, a 2-month-old child of Shaniece Whiting and Art Woolfolk Jr. of Freehold, died Aug. 31, 2008. He is also survived by a sister, Shiandria Woolfolk; two brothers, Asaivion Whiting and Ah’sere Whiting; his paternal grandparents, Yvette Whiting and Betty Butts and her husband, Zackery Butts; three uncles, Zackery Butts Jr., Briheem…

  • Drinking age debate important to future of young lives

    Behind the fusillade of faulty arguments proffered by the Amethyst Initiative in support of lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18 lurks an inconvenient truth: doing so would only exacerbate the current epidemic of underage drinking, further jeopardizing young lives at a critical juncture in their physical, social, and emotional development. What we know…

  • Rosario “Joe” Leonardi

    Mr. Leonardi, 88, of Boca Raton, Fla., whose son lives in Morganville, passed away Sept. 12, 2008, at Care One at Holmdel. He lived in Brooklyn for more than 65 years before moving to Boca Raton, Fla., and then to Morganville earlier this year. Mr. Leonardi was a World War II veteran, a Golden Gloves…

  • Time for Trump to help Marlboro with hospital property

    The journey by Donald Trump to Colts Neck to rescue the Shadow Isle Golf Club serves to once again energize my belief that the entrepreneurial genius of Donald Trump should be asked to come to the rescue of Marlboro in bringing to fruition the disposition of the 411 acres of the former Marlboro State Psychiatric…

  • Carlos Rodriguez

    Mr. Rodriguez, 53, of Manalapan, died Sept. 9, 2008, at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold Township. He was a lithographer for 34 years before retiring in 2007. Mr. Rodriguez is survived by his wife of 30 years, Dianne; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Tamara Rodriguez and Scott Oswald of Plainsboro, Marissa Rodriguez of Manalapan and,…

  • Helen J. Keating

    Mrs. Keating, 103, of Applewood Estates, Freehold Township, died Sept. 5, 2008, at Applewood Estates Healthcare Center. She had resided in Colts Neck Township for 21 years before moving to Freehold Township in 1990. Mrs. Keating was a registered nurse at Roosevelt Hospital and Sloane Hospital for Women of Columbia University, both of New York…